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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 4, 2003Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2003, 6:45 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2003, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2003, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Curry County, NM

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 4, 2:20 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 945 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 7.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

970 
WFUS55 KABQ 050045
TORABQ
NMC009-050145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
645 PM MDT WED JUN 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 640 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 14 MILES NORTH OF SAINT VRAIN...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF CLOVIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAINT VRAIN...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RANCHVALE
     AT 715 PM MDT
  3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANNON AFB AT 735 PM MDT

THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

LAT...LON 3468 10344 3468 10369 3432 10368 3432 10304

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	46 min
Jun 4, 6:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	52 min
Jun 4, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	45 min
Jun 4, 7:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	67 min
Jun 4, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	62 min
Jun 4, 8:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	29 min
Jun 4, 8:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	54 min
Jun 4, 9:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	39 min
Jun 4, 9:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	47 min
Jun 5, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	45 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	61 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	37 min
Jun 5, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	43 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	39 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	48 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	44 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.